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Bill Lockwood

William Henry Lockwood

Born: 25 March 1868, Old Radford, Nottinghamshire
Died: 26 April 1932, Old Radford, Nottinghamshire
Major Teams: Nottinghamshire, Surrey, England.
Known As: Bill Lockwood
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast


Test Debut: England v Australia at Lord's, 1st Test, 1893
Last Test:
England v Australia at The Oval, 5th Test, 1902

Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1899

Career Statistics:

TESTS
 (career)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding   12   16   3   231   52*  17.76   0   1    4   0

                    Balls    M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling              1973  100   883   43  20.53  7-71    5   1  45.8  2.68

FIRST-CLASS
 (career: 1886 - 1904)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  362  531  45 10673  165   21.96  15  48  140   0

                    Balls     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling             52140 25246 1376  18.34  9-59  121  29  37.8  2.90

- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.


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Profile:

A difficult, troubled and awkward character, Bill Lockwood struggled with his demons thoughout his career, but at his best was a magnificent fast medium bowler. Unable to gain a place for his native Nottinghamshire, he moved to Surrey, where he learnt much from George Lohmann. By the early 1890s he was one of the finest bowlers in England, bowling at a brisk fast medium, with a high action and pronounced body swing, and clever variation of pace. His speciality was the break-back, often pitching outside off but pounding into the batsman's thigh or passing over leg stump. He also generated speed off the pitch (or appeared to do so), and had a slower ball "of almost sinful deceit". A good bat, with 15 first class hundreds, he tended to ignore his batting in favour of bowling, but did enough to be classed as a genuine all rounder, averaging 21.9 in first-class cricket.

Albert Knight, his contemporary, wrote of him "Lockwood would break back and nip a piece of one's thigh away, looking at one the while and wondering why the blind gods should waste such a delivery on mere flesh"

His career started a downslide with a disastrous tour of Australia in 1894-95, where he performed pooorly on the field, and was accident prone off it, injuring a shoulder, nearly drowning, and severely cutting a hand when a soda syphon exploded. His miseries were compounded on his return when in a short period both his wife and one of his children died, and he turned to drink. His form suffered badly, and by 1897 he was out of the Surrey side. Surrey persueded im to pledge temperance and he made a remarkable recovery, taking 134 wickets in 1898, and returning to the Test team, playing until the amazing 5th Test in 1902, where, amongst the legendary exploits of Jessop. Hirst, and Rhodes his 5 second innings wickets are nearly forgotten. He had a brief re-aquantaince with his drinking problems in 1901, when again he lost form after his action was questioned, and his benefit was completely rained out. Careful handling by Surrey took him through to his retirement in 1904. He returned to his native Nottinghameshire, and was a common sight at Trent Bridge in his retirement. (DL and JG, 2000)

* Last Updated: Monday, 29-Jul-2002 14:38:22 GMT


 
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